Klarinet Archive - Posting 000165.txt from 2002/09

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: [kl] Fresh
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 21:42:43 -0400

On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 14:33:38 -0700, rjbrown@-----.edu said:

> I am currently relearning (and attempting to memorize) the Weber
> Second Concerto. I played it my junior year in high school (3 years
> ago) and now I need a contest piece, so I decided to take it off the
> back burner. However, I'm struggling a little bit with trying to make
> it sound "fresh" because I worked on it quite extensively the first
> time I learned the piece. As I am looking for ideas of how to
> perform it, I wonder, does anyone know where I could find some good
> performance notes on this piece? I've searched the klarinet archives
> a bit, but to no avail.

I shouldn't worry about making it sound 'fresh'. That idea is in your
head, not in the music.

The music just wants to be itself. If you ask it nicely how it wants to
be, then it'll probably answer you.

A useful idea to start with might be to ask: if it were an opera, how
would it want to be?

Tony
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